I think our Founders would agree with this. In Alpha Phi at least, our first alumna initiate was Frances E. Willard, one of the most famous women of her time, dean and professor at Northwestern University and one of the few women to have a statue in the Capitol building. Ms. Willard attended the school that was the predecessor to Syracuse University and was recommended to our founders by Dr. Coddington. She was a leader in the sufferage movement and the International President of Alpha Phi for 4 years. She believed firmly in the existence of sororities as developers of women and key to the advancement of women.
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Originally posted by sugar and spice
Maybe this is just me, but if it comes down to choosing between the right to join a sorority/Junior League/DAR or being able to vote, being able to take action against an abusive husband, or not be shunned for choosing a path other than being a housewife from age 20 til the day I die -- I'd pick the latter every time.
The great thing about feminism, though, is that we don't have to choose between the two -- we get both options.
As we've discussed on these forums before, sororities would not exist without feminism. The founders of most of these groups were all feminists, whether or not they described themselves as such. I'm not sure where the inherent conflict between sororities and feminism comes in.
As for feminism causing the ills of the world -- I don't think I could begin to get into it on a board like GC, but Taualumna, your grasp of history and social issues is so clearly lacking that I'm not sure it's even worth discussing this topic with you (or many other GCers that I know share your viewpoint). To keep a long story short, I agree with kappaloo that the pervasion of the media has a lot more to do with the oversexualization at a young age than feminism ever did.
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